I'm 99% newsgroups, the remainder being fills downloaded from EasyNews via HTTP. I've never been much of a fan of P2P, and I can't be now that Rogers is trampling P2P traffic. BitTorrent as I understand it is just another P2P system, and I've always hated IRC because it's live and it tends to attract idiots even more than Usenet, if such a thing is possible.

I've never been much of a fan of P2P, and I can't be now that Rogers is trampling P2P traffic. BitTorrent as I understand it is just another P2P system

I don't think of BT in the same way I do of Kazaa and the like. It's definitely different than that. Rather than "hey can I get that file from you", it's more like "hey, lets all get together and distribute this file amongst ourselves". With anime fansubs, I typically get better speeds downloading via BT than I do from my local news server.

Another thing I like about BT is that I can "contribute" without going through the hassles of posting to the newsgroups.